The Select Guest

Featured 5.1-5.7.17 | Imagine a world in which travel was still considered to be one of life's greatest joys. Where people got on airplanes wearing smart suits and sweater sets rather than velour sweatsuits and flip-flops. Where carry-on bags were tailored and chic and fit into the overhead compartments without so much as a tap, rather than bags bulging at the seams that require the strength of two or three people to jam it into place. Then meet Kelly Corroon, the woman who is single-handedly trying to make this magical world a reality. She took her first transatlantic trip to Paris at the age of 12, and has been hooked on travel ever since — so much so that she dropped everything and started her own line of luxe luggage and travel accessories to bring civility back to travel. She also loves hand-written notes and remembers almost every event in her life by what she was wearing, so while she's a thoroughly modern woman with a passion for football (Go Green Bay!) and Improv, she may have come from a bygone era. Her selects are a beautiful mix of old and new and are just as elegant as she is. Welcome to Kelly's week.

I grew up with a steady diet of stories and photos of my great aunts and great grandmother traveling to all these crazy places before it was really done. In many ways I believe that I am living in the wrong time for travel, (though the right time for women), as I long to be back in an age where you had elegant trunks and went by train in an amazing outfit.

These days I have less time to do the hands on work, which I regret. That combined with a recent personal experience, made me change the way I feel about giving money to people begging on the street. So now if I have it, I always give it. I believe that sometimes charity doesn’t have to be more complicated than that.

more about kelly

Kelly Corroon grew up on the East Coast and after graduating from Boston College, worked in public relations for Ralph Lauren in New York. She moved to San Francisco and landed in Marketing at the Gap during the Mickey Drexler hey-days. There she developed a number of well-known ad campaigns, and had the privilege of working with photographers Richard Avedon, Elliott Erwitt, William Wegman and Herb Ritts. She helped open stores for Gap internationally in Tokyo and London, and spearheaded the first launch of gap.com. After a move to the Midwest, Corroon headed up marketing for an internet marketing company in Chicago and ran online marketing for Miller Brewing in Milwaukee. She relocated to London, where she worked as a consultant for Boden and helped launch a children’s charity with Anya Hindmarch, Natalie Massenet and Yasmin LeBon. After 8 years, her husband and three children moved to Hong Kong.

Corroon started her eponymous luxe line of luggage and travel accessories from a long-standing love affair with travel, which she was able to fully indulge while raising her family abroad. She had always been captivated by the bygone age of the elegant vagabond, as well as photos and stories of the generations of women in her own family that travelled widely. The collection aspires to capture the elegance of this lost era, but is fully updated with modern and practical components for today’s more frenzied world.

The Select 7

A curated exploration into the worlds of travel, food, beauty + wellness, fashion, home design and charity by some of the most interesting people out there. The Select 7 unlocks the worlds of today’s top tastemakers, acting as an an exchange hub for people who want both the aspirational and the totally obtainable to share their finds, recommendations and ideas.

TopSelects

A curated exploration into the worlds of travel, food, beauty + wellness, fashion, home design and charity by some of the most interesting people out there. The Select 7 unlocks the worlds of today’s top tastemakers, acting as an exchange hub for people who want both the aspirational and the totally obtainable to share their finds, recommendations and ideas.